Zari language

Zari
Zari
Region	Bauchi State, Plateau State
Ethnicity	20,700 (2000)[1]
Extinct	(date missing)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Barawa (B.3) Zaar Zari; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Zakshi (Zaksa); Boto (Boot, Bibot); Zari (Kopti, Kwapm);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zaz
Glottolog	zari1242
ELP	Zari; Boto; Zakshi;

Zari (Zariwa) is a Chadic dialect cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2019) lists varieties as Zari, Zakshi, and Boto.[2]

Although there is an ethnic population of about 20,000, the last speaker had already died by 2000 (Campbell and Belew 2018).

References

Zari at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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